John Doe - SIX FABLES RECORDED LIVE AT THE BUNKER - VINYL LP

Punk rock pioneer with X, songwriter, poet, actor, solo artist, published author... folk musician. With Fables in a Foreign Land, the debut from The John Doe Folk Trio, his tales are now set in the pre-Industrial Era. And though many of the 13 songs were written over the last three years, the sound was born in loose weekly backyard jams on Kevin Smiths (Willie Nelson and Family) patio. I guess Fables in a Foreign Land is my version of folk music. It started by being sick of musicians that play too much and having to orchestrate or arrange songs. What if it was just less? Everyone says less is more, but you have to figure out for yourself what that means. I didn't do a deep dive into folk music and concern myself with what was traditional, it was just an outgrowth of trying to strip the songs down to the basics. Singles include contributions from outsider country polymath Terry Allen on Never Coming Back, Los Lobos Louie Perez on El Romance-O, and fellow X bandmate Exene Cervenka and Shirley Manson (Garbage) on Destroying Angels. Album Tracks 1. Missouri 2. Never Coming Back 3. Down South 4. The Cowboy and the Hot Air Balloon 5. After the Fall 6. See the Almighty 7. Guilty Bystander 8. Destroying Angels 9. Travelin' So Hard 10. There's a Black Horse 11. Where the Songbirds Live 12. El Romance-O

20 tracks feat. Toots Hibbert, Groovers, Jackie Edwards, Gaytones, Ernie Smith, Ken Lazarus, Upsetters, Johnny Clarke, Maroons, Dennis Brown +. Album Tracks 1. (Marley's Gone) His Songs Live on (Intro) - Frederick Hibbert 2. Bend Down Low - Groovers, the Groovers 3. I'm Still Waiting - Jackie Edwards 4. Mellow Mood - the Gaytones 5. Simmer Down - Johnny Clarke 6. Hypocrites - Al Campbell 7. You Poured Sugar on Me - Ernie Smith 8. Duppy Conqueror - Ken Lazarus 9. My Sympathy (400 Years) - the Upsetters 10. Natty Dread - Pluto Shervington 11. No Woman, No Cry - Johnny Clarke 12. War - Keith Jarrett 13. I Shot the Sheriff - Pluto Shervington 14. Time Will Tell - Johnny Clarke 15. Talking Blues - the Maroons 16. Guava Jelly - the Fab Five Inc 17. Easy Skanking - Johnny Clarke 18. Bend Down Low - Ernie Smith 19. I'm Still Waiting - Dennis Brown 20. (Marley's Gone) His Songs Live on (Outro) - Frederick Hibbert

The Living Kind - I listen to a lot of Metallica. James Hetfield is one of my favourite guitarists. I took his 'down down up' picking style and put it to a three-time jig feel, then practised it for about ten years, before I could get my head around singing to it... but when the song was ready to come along, it did so in twenty minutes. It's hard to get out of bed sometimes, and most days it's almost impossible to see things clearly. Since I turned 40, I've felt that I'm starting to run out of time... but I've still got a lot of work to do. I wrote this song as a marker on the map. It's good to want to be The Living Kind. - The songs are about growing and changing for the better, for the most part. Turning 40 brought me a lot of peace during a tumultuous period. It was as if I finally reconciled with some of the darker corners of my nature. I have had to make some drastic decisions in order to look after my family - selling our house, relocating a couple of times - and have since had to rebuild accordingly. The songs are about staying positive, trying to keep an eye on the centre, holding on to those you love and working towards a better future. Album Tracks 1. Candle 2. Milestones 3. The Living Kind 4. Trick of the Light 5. Silver Mine 6. Dividing Line 7. Too Good to Be True 8. Horizons 9. The World Turns 10. Lily